Strengthening Institutional Resilience: Lessons Learned from COVID-19 Disaster

ABSTRACT

Strengthening institutional resilience is essential for disaster risk governance. This chapter analyzes the principal institutional vulnerabilities exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis in Brazil and the United States. We identify nonconformities that reflected institutional vulnerabilities in these countries' pandemic crisis, based on a survey of professional media coverage. The identification of these failures also led to a discussion of the potential causes of institutional vulnerabilities. The findings were classified according to three levels of analysis, i.e., national governance, international governance, and public-private-third sector governance. Failure modes of institutional vulnerabilities were identified in several sectors (public, private, and third sector), federative entities (Federal Government, States, and Municipalities), and contexts (national and international). The interconnection of these nonconformities contributed to the deepening of the crisis. This chapter could contribute to the development of a political-administrative-operational framework to improve institutional resilience. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022.